"The Politics of Abortion" Book Review
From "The Politics of Abortion," By Anne Hendershott. Encounter Books. 179 pages. $25.95.
Doubtless the most painful chapter is the one in which Hendershott shows that many Catholic colleges no longer foster a prolife culture. Two recent studies have demonstrated that support for abortion on Catholic campuses now increases between the freshman and senior years. Sadly, "abortion is rarely debated on Catholic college campuses, either from a reasoned secular viewpoint or from a theological perspective." True, the Culture of Life is heartily encouraged at the new, more faithful Catholic colleges, but a larger number of the older Catholic campuses actually promote participation in the Culture of Death, for example, with Planned Parenthood student internships and invitations to notorious pro-abortionists to speak on campus.
Recently, though, there have been a few hopeful signs: some pro-abortion lecturers were dis-invited -- Gloria Steinem from Trinity in Vermont, Frances Kissling from Holy Cross, and James Lawson from Christian Brothers University in Memphis. Yet Hendershott finds that the prolife movement in certain elite secular colleges and universities has more vitality today than that found in their Catholic counterparts. This shouldn't be. Our institutions should be the yeast raising the mass of dough.
As Reviewed in New Oxford Review
Doubtless the most painful chapter is the one in which Hendershott shows that many Catholic colleges no longer foster a prolife culture. Two recent studies have demonstrated that support for abortion on Catholic campuses now increases between the freshman and senior years. Sadly, "abortion is rarely debated on Catholic college campuses, either from a reasoned secular viewpoint or from a theological perspective." True, the Culture of Life is heartily encouraged at the new, more faithful Catholic colleges, but a larger number of the older Catholic campuses actually promote participation in the Culture of Death, for example, with Planned Parenthood student internships and invitations to notorious pro-abortionists to speak on campus.
Recently, though, there have been a few hopeful signs: some pro-abortion lecturers were dis-invited -- Gloria Steinem from Trinity in Vermont, Frances Kissling from Holy Cross, and James Lawson from Christian Brothers University in Memphis. Yet Hendershott finds that the prolife movement in certain elite secular colleges and universities has more vitality today than that found in their Catholic counterparts. This shouldn't be. Our institutions should be the yeast raising the mass of dough.
As Reviewed in New Oxford Review
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